DFS Replication Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Microsoft DFS Replication (DFSR)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring DFS Replication skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited DFS Replication over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 344 472
Rank change year-on-year +43 +128 -
Contract jobs citing DFS Replication 3 1 5
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.007% 0.019%
As % of the System Software category 0.26% 0.069% 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £534 - £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £475 £275
Median % change year-on-year +19.68% +72.73% -
75th Percentile £603 - £288
90th Percentile - - £321
UK median daily rate £592 £475 £275
% change year-on-year +24.58% +72.73% -41.02%

All System Software Skills
Work from Home

DFS Replication falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring system software skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,169 1,452 3,207
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 11.80% 9.46% 12.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 868 1,058 2,296
10th Percentile £358 £263 £300
25th Percentile £425 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -3.84% -
75th Percentile £625 £618 £633
90th Percentile £775 £677 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £488 £525
% change year-on-year +7.69% -7.14% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 34 101
10th Percentile £25.25 £15.50 £19.00
25th Percentile £52.44 £15.88 £47.50
Median hourly rate £65.50 £43.32 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.20% -33.35% +165.31%
75th Percentile £79.38 £65.00 £70.25
90th Percentile £92.50 £84.57 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £22.50 £53.43
% change year-on-year +22.22% -57.88% +167.13%

DFS Replication
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing DFS Replication as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

DFS Replication trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

DFS Replication
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing DFS Replication.

DFS Replication daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

DFS Replication
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DHCP
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) SAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Engineer
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) SAN Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (100.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Security Patching
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (100.00%) vSphere
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (100.00%) VMware